skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Part of the GM dealer franchise agreement prohibits GM from competing against its dealer franchises, i.e., by selling directly to customers straight from the factory.

It's not a law, it's simply a contractual provision that the dealers negotiated to protect their investments.
Apple’s Lightning Authentication Chip Has Been Bypassed
It has. They semi-recently switched from XUL to native Java, which has made it as fast (maybe faster?) compared to Chrome or Browser on Android. Definitely worth checking out again.
Sucks to Suck - Mw3
I purchased the bundle and they will email the files to your kindle. You have to go to your Amazon account settings and whitelist kindle@humblebundle.com, however, in order to receive it.
Really emphasizes the need to prepare NOW for these types of opportunities. Especially now that we are talking about $100's of millions (if not Billions of dollars).

Sounds a little bit like the wild wild west / gold rush to me. I like it.
Well, sure, but everything in life is a "phase." A whole career might be a phase. But that's not the point. This post clarifies a vague problem. It's great that you've avoided that. Good for you! Seriously. But to say that he hasn't "discovered what it means to be a programmer" isn't helpful:

Someone doesn't feel amazing about being a programmer.
Programming is amazing.
Therefore that person is not (yet) a programmer.

And the "(yet)" is unimportant here, because a negative feedback loop is exactly what gets in the way of experiencing the amazing part.

The point isn't really to define what a programmer is, it's to define a problem that many people who work as programmers experience, and how that contrasts with other people's expectations.
This is only useful for Chrome Apps (which are meant to run locally on your machine) and will probably not be enabled for any real web surfing. Hosting HTTP on port 80 is probably the least useful real-world sample for this capability.
You are still being free with accusations of spreading misinformation and other evils. If you want to have a real exchange, cool it! Just try to imagine how a hardball from me casting aspersions on you for suspected bad or unfair (to Mozilla; "fair" to Google) motives might feel.

Thanks for the PNaCl pointer. My comment was based on LLVM bitcode having machine word size dependencies. This was an issue a while ago. I should have checked to see if it remained one.

This correction doesn't alter the general unreadiness of PNaCl for the web, on several fronts. Pepper is one, but PNaCl performance lagging NaCl is another. The Chrome Web Store features games ported via NaCl, for performance -- not PNaCl, which would be significantly slower. On this basis alone, it's premature for you to push PNaCl ahead of Google.

> This is a far more reasonable and compelling story.

Well, gee, thanks a ton! :-|

I've been telling this story clearly since Fluent in May. That you chose not to hear it and instead flung accusations and told sob-stories about big bad Mozilla is your doing, not mine.

Here's a final clue: all browser vendors, definitely including Chrome, make the rule (not an argument) "no one gets to the machine except through our VM(s) and GC(s)" -- outside of a few dying plugins, which are even source-licensed and co-released.

And that brings back my final point: NaCl is for safer plugins, which are OS-specific anyway. The likeliest evolution of SFI or CFI enforcing compilers and runtimes as plugin hosts is via the OS, not the browser. Write a letter to Microsoft and Apple, not to Mozilla!
Firewalls are going to impede this from being used for widespread p2p apps. Is there a practical way to do UDP/TCP hole punching ala skype?
Reality show on Silicon Valley not so real.
There's no such thing as an optimal work-life balance, life is an infinite buffet and you can only nibble at a few dishes. No matter what you do, you're going to miss out on nearly everything.

Somewhat less pretentiously, I wonder about contrasting life and work, because it's not unusual to have a pretty active social life at work. The absence of any social stimulation there would at least make me unhappy.
Makes me think of this old story about spoons and shovels:

http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/10/10/spoons-shovels/
I don't think you can even see what you are missing if you never go on vacation or try other things.
How To Stop Sucking And Be Awesome Instead by Jeff Atwood
If You Want Jobs Then Give These Workers Spoons Instead of Shovels
I absolutely agree.

We both (along with hippo33) agree that everyone does not need to lead a balanced life. There are other valid choices like a life of dedication to a specific cause or pursuit. Or anywhere in between that makes you happy.

We disagree on whether you should use the word balance when you "technically" mean the exact opposite. That's poor communication in my opinion.
Oh, awesome! I purchased it as well, but somehow missed the gigantic bold link offering to do that.
Not only is this mean spirited, I think it's fairly short-sighted. I've tried several to-do list apps and none of them have quite worked for me. I end up going back to scrap pieces of paper laying on my desk or stickies, both of which are sub-optimal. In fact I've never met anyone who fully recommends their to-do list software, their recommendation is always filled with caveats and things they still do "the old way."

Yes the market is saturated but that doesn't mean there is nothing innovative to be done here. I say more power to this person for building something for himself and putting himself out there to see what others think.
Let's look at this from a branding perspective: Say in the next year you sell X cars, built on a new technology about which there is some conventional/popular consumer discomfort or doubt.

Is it worth spending 600X dollars of company money for your customers to be able to say, "I just bought a Tesla and I don't have to worry about any maintenance costs at all for the next four years"? For ten thousand cars, that would be six million dollars out of about 800 million in revenue, or three quarters of a percent. Seems like that would be money well spent on developing consumer confidence in the technology and customer loyalty for the brand.

My prediction is that Tesla will change course on there current maintenance program. It's much better PR to offer free maintenance for the first four years, a la BMW, and then offer an extended "Tesla Care" warranty program that continues the coverage, similar to Apple.

Because a true "concierge" level maintenance program wouldn't nickel and dime the customer.
Seriously? It sounds fantastic to me. I would have loved to spend less time in high school hanging out with idiotic, insecure teenagers and more time getting shit done.
That is correct. The Firefox parts have to land before the Marketplace can open, otherwise the Marketplace is useless.
I still use FF, but switch to Chrome for JS heavy stuff. Even amazon.com is laggy on FF. The things that's stopping me from switching to Chrome full-time is the Extensions that FF has. I can really customize things to work exactly the way I want. My biggest gripe about Chrome is that the download bar at the bottom doesn't go away when you finish a download.
We have had a bunch of beta testers use it in China and Japan. It was also fun to pretend to not know English and use it at a restaurant.
Would be fun to go on vacation and when you come back, you find your tiny pet bamboo has grown 30m tall.
Yer in denial, nigger.

God says...

hosts is his name.

51:20 Thou art my battle axe and weapons of war: for with thee will I
break in pieces the nations, and with thee will I destroy kingdoms;
51:21 And with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;
and with thee will I break in pieces the chariot and his rider; 51:22
With thee also will I break in pieces man and woman; and with thee
will I break in pieces old and young; and with thee will I break in
pieces the young man and the maid; 51:23 I will also break in pieces
with thee the shepherd and his flock; and with thee will I break in
pieces the husbandman and his yoke of oxen; and with thee will I break
in pieces captains and rulers.

51:24 And I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of
Chaldea all their evil that they have done in Zion in your sight,
saith the LORD.

----

Chaldeans == homos. Hanging chads. Dimpled chads. I knew a homo named "Chad."

----

Read this:

http://www.sparrowos.com/Wb/Apps/AfterEgypt/AENotes.html

Go to a random number site for a number 1-100000

Go to Bible line

http://www.sparrowos.com/files/BIBLE.TXT

----

God says...

was the length thereof, and one cubit and a half the breadth thereof.

37:7 And he made two cherubims of gold, beaten out of one piece made
he them, on the two ends of the mercy seat; 37:8 One cherub on the end
on this side, and another cherub on the other end on that side: out of
the mercy seat made he the cherubims on the two ends thereof.

37:9 And the cherubims spread out their wings on high, and covered
with their wings over the mercy seat, with their faces one to another;
even to the mercy seatward were the faces of the cherubims.

37:10 And he made the table of shittim wood: two cubits was the length
thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the
height thereof: 37:11 And he overlaid it with pure gold, and made
thereunto a crown of gold round about.

37:12 Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about;
and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.
You gotta prime them :)

- Parlez-vous anglais?
- No
- Je ne parle pas bien le français, mais ... [followed by
English with French-style word mangling and descriptive
gestures and sounds]

Once they know you suck at French, they will spe-ak slo-o-o-w-e-r and cut you a break in general.
You think this:
"Developers have very little positive to go off of, and few professions have customers as discerning and grumpy as compilers."

Yet you mentioned this example:
"A doctor sees someone walk back in for their checkup who couldn't walk a week ago."

Is not seeing a product in action, one that possibly effects millions of lives (to be more realistic lets say 1000s, hell even a few dozen should be satisfying) in a positive way not very satisfying? I doctor helping a patient might not be as personal, but when I think about software I right the people who are using it and enjoying it are not far from my mind.
Best comment I've read in a long time. Thank you very much Yoda.
Ah, I think I just got it.

You mean "fulfilling". Not balanced, balanced means something else. You seem to think I'm trying to tell people how to live when I am actually trying to tell you that you are using the wrong word to express your idea.

I agree with your point wholeheartedly by the way, I was just confused by your use of the word balanced to mean fulfilled.
I hate how slow it is. After I get to the commit screen it thrashes my CPU and takes ages before my typing shows up.

It's still the best on OSX though.
So this is why my ears felt warm this morning.

Yeah, even though I don't work at Mozilla anymore, I still think {P}NaCl is a bad idea for the web as a whole (and its users, by effect) and also for Mozilla (as one of its most important stewards.)

Carry on.
As an American, I find this distinction interesting. Can the two of you (Eru and arrrg), or some other Europeans, weigh in on this?

Personally, I don't understand why books shouldn't fall under the same regulations as other goods. Sure, a book has intrinsic value not found in a bottle of shampoo, but so do movies, video games, paintings, and all other art. Are those categories also regulated?
CIA using Skype in Homeland
It made my day to have my question answered by an honest-to-goodness rocket scientist. Thank you!

I think the numbers that best sum up the situation are provided by yardie and blaze33 though. I knew that stuff coming from space was obviously going to be moving faster than the guy's 0 velocity, but had no idea about the order of magnitude.
Ok, but you asked "which would you choose?". That is not the same as saying "I would choose X". You are assuming your opinion on the matter is common, I am suggesting it is not as common as you believe.
>> You can have all those things without religion.

> Then why don't we?

That's easy to answer -- religions hunt down and kill all members of communities other than their own. In "civilized" western societies, religions instead argue endlessly against any ideas or communities that differ from their own, eventually wearing down their opponents:

"Republican Congressman says evolution is 'lie from hell'":

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/republican-...

Another reason, less important, is that the glue of religion is stronger than the glue of simple human companionship, to the degree that one simply cannot escape.
What's the storage infrastructure?
PGP had a nice wordlist for verifying key fingprints:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGP_word_list
This article is supposed to be hero worship, but all I see is a famous director outed as a person who couldn't delegate properly.
No, it's not. It's saying that in certain states the definition of a car dealership precludes Tesla's current sales facilities (i.e., mall storefronts) from finalizing sales.

Tesla can still maintain these storefronts, and still negotiate and reach an agreement in principle in these storefronts. It simply can't finalize (i.e., sign the contract) in these storefronts. The reasons for this vary from state to state, so I won't even bother try to explain the justifications.
Twitter founders and tech giants aim to make SF smarter
I selected a web server, because a lot of web developers want to run localhost test environments easily and also on Chrome OS.
What's stoppping you from walking into ANY dealership, paying sticker price and driving off in a new car?
It's not a race to the bottom, bitbucket's not free, they just have a different pricing scheme.

I'm a happy paying customer with 10 users and dozens of repositories. We're an agency, work on a lot of different projects, and having price be O(people) instead of O(projects) makes lot more sense for us.

As amazing as it may sound on HN, GitHub isn't best for everyone. Therefore, there are ways to compete with them that aren't price-based.
Yes, the article seems to entirely sidestep the possibility that perhaps Kubrick just had trouble communicating (at least with his cameramen).
You have to re-agree to the honer code every time you submit an exercise for grading, too, and they are very clear with the no cheating policy.
Links to Amazon reviews for all the books:

http://www.amazon.com/Pirate-Cinema-Cory-Doctorow/dp/0765329...

http://www.amazon.com/Pump-Other-Stories-Paolo-Bacigalupi/dp...

http://www.amazon.com/Zoo-City-Lauren-Beukes/dp/0857662163/

http://www.amazon.com/Invasion-Secret-World-Chronicle-Chroni...

http://www.amazon.com/Stranger-Things-Happen-Kelly-Link/dp/1...

http://www.amazon.com/Magic-Beginners-Kelly-Link/dp/01560318...

Bonus Books (If you pay more than average) :

http://www.amazon.com/Signal-Noise-Edition-Neil-Gaiman/dp/15...

http://www.amazon.com/Old-Mans-War-John-Scalzi/dp/0765348276...
I've tried both and have settled on Xubuntu because it runs faster (particularly on my Netbook) and provides a solid non-Unity experience.

Mint is pretty nice too, but I generally recommend it to people who are new to Linux because it comes with more software out-the-box, looks a bit flashier, and seems to be a bit more familiar to people coming from Windows.
This is kind of apropos, but why do so many web apps use blue as their primary colour?
It will likely be in Firefox 18. It is on Nightly right now.
I've read that the "invoice price" is artificially inflated, because manufacturers give dealers hidden "incentives" and things like that to lower the real cost to the dealer. Any thoughts?
Your first point, this is just the JS implementation of the socket API. So yes, Chrome can accept a connection and send it back.

2nd point, yes, as long as you bind it to your IP address.

3rd point. Honestly not sure.
I have a kind of rule that has seen me from one place to another: you can always do it without an all-nighter. It might not have the best software engineering properties, it might suddenly do something completely different from all the rest of the code and drag in half a dozen libraries, it might barely fit the API you're calling.... but there is always some cleverer way of doing it than just coding all through the day and night.

Of course, many jobs actually want brute-force code versus library-laden, clever hacks. This is why I struggled to become a researcher again.
Good Lord. Please let's get things straight. Could people stop confusing "happiness" with "balanced" If you forgo balance to focus exclusively on one element of your life you might well be happy. But you're not balanced. Don't try and tell people your life is balanced. Tell people your life is not balanced and that's from an active decision to forgo balance and you're very happy with your decision. However, don't squeeze the english language through a food processor to make it do what you want.
Don't modern OSes send spin-down commands to HDDs when not in use?
Otherwise Unrelated TED Talk Illustrates How the System is Broken
A bit off here and there in terms of styling and being pixel perfect, but looks nice overall. One thing that did stand out is that the 4th word in 1st testimonial is ass.

(edit) Top menu is almost illegible. Green with a green drop shadow over black? Not working. Also, the stack items in each section in the footer vertically, makes them easier to digest.
Really Cool. some of the T-spins coul not rotate in all directions but still good enough. I scored 5927 before I bombed out!!
What if The New iMac Could run iOS?
Why is the pricing page still almost completely lorum ipsum? Did you mean to have an HN launch of your redesign without it being done?

EDIT: Nevermind, I guess? I somehow to got /pricing not /plans-pricing
But this isn't what the piece describes. The author is talking about the _feedback_ one receives while doing work. Take the 3rd mason and start giving him a list of what's wrong with the work he's doing every day until the cathedral is built, and see what happens. This stonemason example, while touching and certainly applicable to some situations, is just too far removed from the reality of what many programmers experience to be relevant here.
How do apps like bit torrent do it today?
EA has really come out quietly as a really serious competitor in the app market. Doesn't surprise me they are on top of the holiday hustle.
I think this is more of a reflection of the current state of religion in the country and its move to the extremes rather than a change in people's beliefs.

Religion has become so occupied in polarizing issues (e.g. politics) and scandals, that belonging to one of these organization's has changed from being part of a philosophy/community to an extremist organization.

Don't get me wrong I'm a strong contingent of the 20% but I believe there is a place for religion as well. I believe that religion has both the ability to be productive for a community as well as very destructive for an individual.

The founders got it right with the first amendment and the separation of church and state. It's too bad that the same people who clutch the constitution so firmly in one hand also carry the bible in the other these days.
Rumors Haunt Zynga As Employees Revolt
Well, this seems like one of those social problems where a technical solution might be available.

1) Figure out the number of students taking course n.

2) For the first assignment, figure out the number of questions m you want.

3) Make a question bank of size M.

4) Satisfy the constraint n < (M-m)!

5) You now can uniquely identify uploaders via the set of answers they upload.

If you're willing to kick people out of the class and mark them as cheaters, you can now do so without worrying they're trying to frame someone else.

This can be refined--maybe make it so that the question bank is large enough that several people conspiring will be unable to randomly generate a sequence of questions that's been given to a real person, so they can't randomly screw people for shits and giggles. You could also make the questions differently phrased, making it harder to Google them. Depending on how many cheaters there are, you can also just make a question bank that's large enough that any given question is unlikely to have been uploaded by a cheater, though that rapidly blows up the size of the necessary question pool if you do have a significant proportion of cheaters.
The solution knocking around my head for this
was a "sub-channel" for off-topic corrections
to posts

That seems like a great idea

b) looking like a <nasty word> for calling them out.

judging by the downvotes I guess people think I was trying to be a dick... then vs. than is a very common English error, I figured he'd rather know than continue to be wrong. I would have emailed if he had an email in his profile, but nope. oh well.
Indeed, there seems to be 1989 bug fixes!
+Taxi Unions/Laws
What’s A Vintage AppleI Worth According To The Latest Christie’s Auction
> This guy has not discovered what it means to be a programmer, he is simply in a phase of his programming life.

Very well put. I see so many posts here that I roll my eyes over. This is not to put them down, may be it has to do with the fact that we as programmers don't talk about our "feelings" :)
2013 Nissan Leaf: Spy Shots Of New, Less-Expensive Model
Thanks for catching that - must have had the template published, but have fixed that now.
It's really nice to see an approach that's different not just in UI but in concept. Smart.
Secondarily, the amount of internet services hosted in Dublin makes it a good spot to host DNS servers too.
But it's not just $7. We are a small consulting company, with a lot of git repositories. Our total costs would be more in the range of $50 a month.

That's what I am getting at. $7 a month is not all that expensive, you're right - but I am only getting 5 private repositories for that $7 a month.

It just doesn't make sense to use github for private work when you have a lot of repositories.
No more public timeline on Twitter
You're missing something, and it should be pretty obvious, because you're criticizing an incredibly talented and successful movie maker's ability to communicate.

Art is all about communication. Stanley Kubrick is a fantastic communicator. He knows that things are always lost in translation. He knows that his priority is communication between him and his audience. Therefore, it makes sense for him to want to have direct control over an aspect of filmmaking that he finds incredibly important, that is, dictating the what is shown to the audience by manipulation of the camera.

Put another way, his insistence on operating the camera is not a failure of communication on his part, rather an elevation of his ideal way of communicating to an audience.

Don't try and criticize art using only ideas from business management.
Android Tutorial: Finding the SD Card Path
Thanks for the feedback! Do you think white on black would work better for the nav bar at the top?
Is really hard for my wallet to resist bundles like this. When the price and process get together, is easy to give your money.

Just bought a bundle for myself and one for my girlfriend.